No boot device available

Primary hard disk drive 0 failure

No boot device availadle
No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility
I am having the same problem except I went to the BIOS and there is no way to set the primary and secondary boot devices.

Can you listen to your computer and hear the H.D.D spin up? Or does your pc speaker beep more than normal?Can you listen to your computer and hear the H.D.D spin up? Or does your pc speaker beep more than normal?

Make sure all the connections to the Hard Drive are tight and secure. Then see if it will boot. If not then try loading a windows cd and see if it detects the Hard drive. If it does not the hard drive is no good if it does try running the automated system recovery you may have a corrupt MBR file.

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If you strike F1, the system retries as said in the comment. That does'nt solve anything. Rather strike F2 which allows to enter the setup menus of your computer.
In this area you should understand what you are doing. Any update of setupdata may prevent further restart. At least take note of values and changes. You exit setup via a question "update Y/N". Then the computer restarts.
Anyway, in the setup menu you may inspect the devices and see if you the system identifies the disk. If not it may come from a bad connection of hard disk (sata pins, ...) or from low level disk information (format information).
With setup menu you may get in the boot order menu, that allows for the selection of an alternate boot media. You may boot on an installation media, ( install DVD generally, like originall windows install DVD) in order to understand and repair the situation, or from a rescue system like UBCD. You may also try Ubuntu from the CD without installing, just to verify if you may see the disk in the configuration.
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Check your BIOS, by pressing F2 and see if the hard drive is recognized. It should indicate the MFR next to the hard drive listing. If it's not there, then you might have a bad hard drive. If it is there, try re-installing the operating system with the set-up disk.
You can also go to the Dell website, enter you service tag number, and get technical support for your particular laptop. It might have a recovery partition in the hard drive to recover to factory settings.

Call Dell if under warranty. Start shopping for a replacement hdd if outside of warranty. You'll needyour OS disks that came with computer (hopefully). If you don't have OS/recovery disks, you can getthem from Dell or even using somebody elses (match version with sticker on your laptop).

again check is bios is there set first deviced as cd rom dvd rom?If it is just clean your bootable windows cd with hand caurchief.Then check if it not boot with disk then your cd disk of windows is not bootable or faulty.Please let me know.

Is there a hard disk installed inside the computer? try reconnecting it.

The motherboard, the hard drive, or the connector could be faulty in this case.

Remember to unplug and remove battery if you open the laptop, the hard drive is in most cases in the bottom under a cover with few screws or in some dells its on the side with few screws and comes out from the side instead from the bottom.

The issue you are having is that your computer is not seeing the harddrive or the boot drive. This could be a simple fix from the bios by telling the computer what device it needs to boot from which in this case is your hard drive.

You say that it did work and it was working how long ago was that? It also could be more serious in which you hard drive has crashed or exceeded its MTBF (which means "mean time before failure").